Kunde

Trekked from Namche to Kunde today. A four hour photographic joy. Completely against expectation Kunde peak appeared out of the pre Monsoon mist. Shortly followed by Thamserku. They jostled for attention for 15 minutes and then they were gone.

We continued climbing higher onto the old airstrip in this surreal swirling mist. They were building a new yak fence. And a 16 year old girl from Makalu allowed me to take her portrait and video as she hammered violently on the Great Himalayan Sequence gneiss.

We meandered gloriously alone throw misty prayer flags and walls and rolled into Kunde. There was a tiny patch of artificial grass by the splendid prayer wheels where the local youth were sunning themselves when they should have been in school. One wanted to be a Yak Driver consistent with his claim to own 40 yaks. The second whose father had summited Everest 10 times wanted to be a climber. And the third a software engineer.

Ama Dablam dramatically appeared for 10 minutes to cap off a day that has made it all worthwhile